Sirin was hiding inside a pocket dimension nearby her friends' graves. She received fatal injuries, but the core of serenity healed her full time and she gnashed her teeth with anger.
"Damnit! Useless! They've taken care of my servants and Bella is surely gone... Vermin! I will exterminate every single one of you! Just you wait." She tried making a plan and she thought of luring them in Siberia. Then separate them using the infinite corridor.
"That white haired insect will not be able to escape there. You might be strong, but you cannot control space like me." She smirked and thought it was fool proof.
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Back at Yellowstone, Lieserl gave Siegfried 3 glowing vials. "We have unearthed these in ruins that we have found here in America. They are called ICHOR activators. They can give you an immense boost in strength and powers. As you can see with what you've done here." Lieserl pointed at a big chunk of ice right in front of them.
"Hehe, sorry about that Dr. Einstein. Thanks, I will use this to end this war. I'm sure I can do it with this power." He remembered the 0th power of the judgement of Shamash and the overwhelming power of it would surely defeat Sirin, he thought.
"Care for a cup of coffee?" Lieserl poured him a cup and Siegfried nodded. "I could really drink some right now. This war is a mess and it's been stressful, Adelheid even went rogue. But she gave Cecilia and Kiana to Spiral workshop, so they should be fine."
He drank it in one gulp and Einstein just observed him. "What do you think about it? Was it good?" She probed.
"To be honest doc, it was cold and bland." He scratched his head and thought it was terrible. Lieserl nodded and went serious. "That was in fact boiling hot. It seems I am correct, your honkai genes that resurfaced has affected your tactile sensations and thermoreceptors are numbed from heat. Your body is also room temp right now. Something impossible for humans to survive." Lieserl broke the news and Siegfried was shocked.
"Those ICHOR activators? Use them wisely, that substance was highly regulated back in the previous era. Do you know why? It forcibly strengthens the host's honkai genes. And as you know, the honkai corrupts the body and does all sorts of nasty things to your body. Then if you overdose, a honkai cascade will happen. Turning you into a honkai beast." She explained to him, making him clench his fist.
"Thank you for the warning Dr. Einstein. I'll use this with caution." He then put them inside a box carefully and looked at the pistols of Shamash.
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Ottilie contacted Hua as she thought she would need her to get answers. Fenghuang down would be able to search Sirin for possible ways to revive Kallen using the herrscher of death.
"My old friend, you're finally here. I have been waiting for you." The blonde smiled at Hua and she snorted.
"So? What do you want now? I am quite busy, I'm celebrating my student's graduation right now." Hua tapped her shoe on the floor, clearly impatient.
"Don't be so short fused my old friend. I need you in our fight against the 2nd herrscher. My mimicry of Fenghuang down clearly will not work on her. And incapacitating her would make this war end faster." Tilie proposed, but what she wanted was to get in her head and try to know how to revive Kallen.
"Hmm, a valid point. But what's in it for me? Shenzou is peaceful and you have to give something for my services no?" Hua sat down and the negotiations have started.
Tilie was stumped, thinking that Hua would agree as she was the immortal protector of the world. And Sirin would cause chaos in Shenzou in due time.
"How about I resign as the overseer and give you the position?" She could still continue her search to revive Kallen even with the decreased political and manpower. So she offered Schicksal itself.
"Hmmm, giving me more responsibility? Hard pass Tilie. I have better things to do than run your little organization." Hua refused and the blonde cannot imagine something that she would need as anyone in Odin and friends were so closely guarded, the only thing you could get from them is their pictures while in public.
"You know what? I may have something I want, give Theresa to me and Schicksal would give its full support to the school that will be established in the far east. Meaning, Schicksal will not meddle with anything that happens there." Hua gave her a bone and Tilie weighed the pros and cons.
'Theresa's useless school? No matter, it is just another valkyrie training center and they will just do missions on their own. Why does she want it? I see no benefit... One of their whims again it seems.' The blonde nodded and they shook their hands on it.
"That is acceptable, I do have one more request for that. Nothing too heavy, you are the immortal phoenix. And in your lore, you not only protect humanity, you also buried relics and weapons for when it was time to fight a greater threat, the honkai." Schicksal also has unearthed ancient history. And she wanted to have more Soulium for her avatars as it is running low.
"Correct, what is it that you want then? I'll consider it as a bonus." Ein has instructed them that any tech they have hidden for the current era was useless now. Everybody agreed as they could manipulate reality to their will now with Adamantine that he has produced throughout the centuries.
"I would like to know the locations of Soulium. It is a very valuable material and it could bolster Schicksal's forces immensely." Tilie thought it was worth a try instead of finding it herself.
"Okay, that isn't a problem. Though I do not remember it now as thousands of years have passed already. Tough luck." Hua shrugged as she really have deleted her memories of it and Tilie thought of a way to get it.
"I will create something to retrieve it from your memories then old friend. It might not be now, but in the future. This is a long time project anyway, thank you for your time and cooperation." Tilie thought it was fine and she didn't need it now really.
"You need me in Siberia right? Then I will be waiting there." Hua then left and Tilie started consolidating the valkyrie order for the final battle in Siberia.
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Ein went to Yellowstone with a potato ruck sack on his shoulders. "Ahhh, this place looks the same as we left it. Maybe I should teach again? It was pretty fun, reminds me of my days as a resident." He then walked in like he owned the place, technically he did.
"Ein? Came to visit? Thank you for coming, Joachim was a good friend of ours and Tesla was hit the hardest." Emma greeted him and thought he was there to say his condolences.
"Yeah, can you call Tesla for me? I have a present for her to cheer her up." He patted the sack and Emma nodded.
After a few minutes, everybody arrived and Tesla's eyes were puffy from crying too much. "Hah, Joachim probably didn't even give you a goodbye kiss or something? Damn, that kid needs to have better game. He probably just went up to you and went quiet." Ein shook his head at Joachim's way to say goodbye.
Tesla nodded and she started tearing up again. "Un, he... He didn't even say goodbye clearly. He thinks he's some cool hero like batman or something." She was given a napkin by Erwin and Nancy smiled wryly.
"He really liked to be the cool lonesome hero didn't he? Well, that's just his way of saying goodbye." Nancy and Erwin nodded at each other and Lieserl sighed.
"Well, cheer up Tesla. I've got a present for you that you'll surely like." He opened the potato sack and Welt got dropped to the floor with a deadpan expression. Completely tied up in a tortoise shell bondage.
"He's all tied up and ready. You better not let him go, or he'll do stupid shit again. Don't worry, even vipralopa class honkai beasts won't be able to get out of that bondage. I'm the master of erotica after all." Ein nodded sagely and everybody was gobsmacked.
Lieserl and Erwin snickered and took pictures while Nancy laughed boisterously as she filmed it. Emma smiled wryly and Tesla was still shocked out of her mind.
"Oh, better not forget this." Ein took out a suspicious looking pill and shoved it inside Welt's mouth. He then gave a thumbs up to Tesla.
"He'll be up all night~ I hope you exercise regularly Tesla, or you will have some cardio of a lifetime. Don't thank me Joachim, just doing my job. Tesla isn't getting any younger you know?" He then disappeared and Tesla went up to Joachim.
"You... You jerk! If you want to die so badly, then you should've just dropped dead somewhere!" Tesla shouted at him while crying and hugging him tight.
"What a tsundere. Just fuck already, we won't watch, we promise." Erwin commented.
"Ahhh, Tesla and Joachim are finally climbing the stairs of adulthood. It only took a couple of decades, they grow up so fast." Emma teared up and wiped it off.
Nancy then went up to her and whispered to Tesla what she should do. Making her face as red as her hair.
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Siegfried got picked up by Theresa and they were on the way to Siberia. "Ziggy, is it true? Did Addy really went rogue?" Theresa couldn't believe it and thought she was crazy. As she would always be on the run.
"Apparently so, Cecilia notified me and they're in Spiral workshop. Addy broke her ties with Schicksal and she said she might side with AE." Siegfried frowned and he never wanted to fight with his sister in law. As she would wipe the floor using his face, no sweat.
"Let's focus on the 2nd herrscher for now. Addy already told Schicksal that she would help in the war." Theresa theorized that she was already in Siberia. So she would talk to her there later.
They arrived nearby the babylon lab and it was eerily quiet. "I thought honkai beasts should be roaming around here? They just disappeared? Like that?" Siegfried received a report that thousands of enemies hounded the area. But there was nothing there, courtesy of the Aesir operatives and ELFs.
"Don't focus on the honkai beasts Siegfried, we need to know the location of the 2nd herrscher. Thankfully, Judah can still locate her for us. But prepare yourself, this will be a hard-fought battle. We already lost earlier with her just having one core. But I have a trick up my sleeve." Theresa focused on Judah and the cross started to point to the direction of Sirin.
"Come on, let's go." Theresa started to approach the location slowly with Siegfried and they saw nothing, but Siegfried remembered the words of Welt and she was hiding in a pocket dimension.
"Theresa, Judah counters the honkai right? I think she's just right there. Break in forcefully and we will start the fight. Adelheid would know of our location when we start. But I'll send her a message as well." Siegfried sent Addy a short message and they prepared for their fight.
"Cheng just finished fighting the pseudo herrscher of haste. They will come with squad snowwolf a bit later. We don't know what Sirin's doing in there. Let's engage, she might be plotting a destructive attack like the lunar meteors." Theresa put Judah on the ground and Siegfried nodded.
The golden chains of the cross started glowing and they suddenly rushed to a place in front of them. It crashed onto Sirin's hiding place and the chains slowly breached it.
Before they could open it. They were greeted by ethereal hands that threatened to crush them. Siegfried shot it with Shamash and Theresa dodged as she carried the lumbering cross.
"So you insects have finally arrived. And you haven't learned a thing. I guess you will see the prelude for the destruction of this world." Sirin rained thunder on them and Theresa had no choice, but to protect them with Judah.
"Damn, she is much, much stronger now. Siegfried, distract her and I'll try to hold her down!" Theresa barked orders and Siegfried brandished the pistols of Shamash.
He fired at her and she dodged with ease. While Theresa wiled the chains of Judah to give chase. Sirin smirked at the incoming chains, she redirected it back at Theresa. The pointed ends was about to hit her, so Siegfried ceased his distraction and shot down the chains with pinpoint accuracy.
"This is a royal pain. She can block or redirect anything we throw at her!" Siegfried complained as he resumed firing at the flying herrscher.
"Heh, is that all you can do humans? Then you disappoint me, you're no fun. I guess it's time for me to purge you from this world." Sirin willed her subspace lances to surround them. Theresa and Siegfried gulped nervously as they saw the unblockable weapons around them. Siegfried was about to reach to his pocket for the ICHOR, but a cold wind blew and suddenly, the lances froze and turned to dust.
"Purge us? We own this place herrscher, humans have dominated the planet for thousands of years. We don't plan on losing now, or ever." Cheng appeared with squad snowwolf and she brandished her new gift.
"Back up. Convenient timing guys, now let's show her how we will beat her." Siegfried said as reinforcements have now arrived.
Salome immediately pestered Sirin with her flying blades, while Shub and Kira waited for an opportunity.
"Tsk, you pests come time and time again!" Sirin blew away the flying blades with a gust of wind and Cheng protected them with a wall of ice.
Cheng loaded her legs with honkai energy and zipped around the battlefield. She then launched energy blades at tactical points to lower Sirin on the ground.
Theresa split open Judah and it emitted a field that counters honkai nearby Sirin. Weakening her shield, so she had to dodge the combined attacks of Siegfried, Salome, and Cheng.
"Now!" Shub ran and Kira used her strings, tying up Sirin and it emitted electricity. "The black goat of the woods say hi herrscher!" Shub was about to stab Sirin, but a gust of wind blew them away and she was unaffected from Kira's electric wires.
"As if your puny strings and electricity would affect me human. Have you forgotten? I am the queen of conquest as well." She then erupted with flames and plasma that would burn all of them to ashes.
"No you don't!" Cheng waved her sword and the raging flames and plasma dissipated. But it took a lot out of her and she started to pant. "Ein-sama, your little gift is troublesome to wield..."
Sirin eyed the blue sword and felt that it was the same as the cross and lance. They were made from herrscher cores.
They were in a deadlock as Theresa protects them with Judah's chains and Sirin is kept at bay because of its anti honkai properties. And the herrscher was worried of the eerie katana on Cheng's hands. As she stared at it and the sword gave her chills, like the weapon would freeze her and turn her into dust if she wasn't careful.
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"Old friend, it seems the new generation is quite splendid no? Though I do wonder where Cheng got that bone chilling sword." Tilie praised the ones fighting Sirin as it was no easy feat. And the 5th divine key gave her chills. She never felt that with abyss flower and Judah before. As Ein gave away how to use it to Cheng. Enabling her to use it to its full potential.
"That they are. I will be going in, her mind is yours" Hua disappeared and golden feathers appeared at the battle field. She then went away without anyone noticing her as Tilie scrambled to get a clue on how to use the 6th herrscher's powers.
"Hello there my valkyries. Siegfried... Sirin is now under my control, do not be alarmed. It isn't a trap." Tilie appeared before the group.
Cheng and Siegfried squinted their eyes, but they stood down as the herrscher appeared to be daydreaming. Staring at empty space.
Tilie went up to Sirin and invaded her mind. She searched for certain memories concerning the powers of the 6th. "At last! There you are..." She saw Sirin playing with her mother.
So the blonde forcibly showed the girl her mother's death. Tilie then viewed her memories of recreating life.
Using the 1st and 6th herrscher powers. Sirin recreated the body of her mother and gave her a personality.
"Mom? Mom!" She hugged the woman, but due to her joy. Sirin did not notice that the woman was unresponsive and moved like a doll.
Tilie transformed into Bella to not alarm the herrscher and wanted to probe for more information. "My queen, I am sorry to be rude. But is she really your mother? How about her soul?" This was a question that stumped her for years. As she could clone Kallen and put her memories inside the clone, but it would never be Kallen.
"What do you mean Bella? Of course she is my mother..." The woman started to disintegrate and she said her name one last time.
Maybe it's because she lost concentration, maybe something was missing. "The soul... Is it really impossible without it? But how can I retrieve it. I do not know..." Sirin slumped to the ground and Tilie clicked her tongue, needing to know more.
"My queen, how about the core of Serenity? Does it not govern souls?" She asked and Sirin shook her head. Staring at the place that her mother stood moments ago.
"The herrscher core of death has no rule over souls." Sirin knew it, but her mother was the one that gave her happiness the most. And she tried even if it would inevitably fail.
'This is going nowhere. Perhaps the gestalt will of honkai will know, the one she calls her god.' The blonde smirked and went up to Sirin.
"How about we ask god?" Tilie recommended and Sirin has never thought of it. So she reached out to her connection with the will of the honkai and Tilie was thrown out of Sirin's mind instantly. Entering a white space that seemed infinite.
"Where am I? Is this the world of honkai? Am I about to meet the being that is beyond the scope of our knowledge?" Tilie looked around and saw a white blank person.
It then started to transforming, copying her as with Sirin's meeting with the will. The blonde was not surprised and thought it was only natural that something like a god could do that.
"Greetings O lord. I am your humble servant Ottilie of house Apocalypse. And I came here to beseech you." She bowed, but she prepared a mimicry of Shamash at her back.
"I am looking for a way to revive my beloved, Kallen. And I am ready to die for that knowledge."
'A honkai god must be an enemy of humanity as well. I must prepare, I'm so close... I'll even fight and kill a god if I must.'
But she was dumbfounded as the will nodded. "You agree to help me?" 'No, it can't be that easy! This thing might not even be a real god, I must let it prove itself.'
"O lord, I have one question..." She was about to ask the laws of the universe. But the will smirked and overloaded her brain with how the universe truly worked.
'Argh! What is this! My brain simply cannot handle such volumes of data! All of humanity's knowledge is only a speck of worthless dust compared to this wealth of truth... Only an omnipotent being can store this much and deliver truths on a whim! I now know why it agreed to help me.'
The information was crammed into her head and she was only able to maintain her sanity because of her Soulium avatar.
'I'm nothing before this being. I'm just an insect cowering before the vastness of its powers.'
"Forgive your sinful servant O lord. I only have one question, how can you revive someone who has died. Please! She is someone important to me, her name is Kallen." Tilie groveled and begged for answers.
"Please lord! Answer me! I'm begging you!" She was desperate, and an answer to revive Kallen has never been close as before.
The will then tried messing with her as she showed her sins. Manipulating Eleanor, killing thousands of people to find a cure for the plague. Letting millions die to get the powers of a herrscher.
"E-eleanor... She did it to herself! And it was necessary to cure the plague! I didn't mean to kill them!"
'What is this!? Why is it showing me all this. I refuse to be weighed down by my past! I'm so close!'
"Please god! Just show me how you would revive her, I'm begging you! I'll do anything to witness your divine miracles and powers." Tilie stubbornly asked.
The will smirked again and willed a sword. It then stabbed itself as Tilie did not understand what it meant.
'Wait, something is wrong. What does that mean!? My body is disintegrating! No! Please answer me!' She then returned to the real world and screamed.
'All the wealth of knowledge! Gone, reduced to nothing. My human mind can't even hold a shard! There was nothing that I can remember but god stabbing herself. How will I even interpret that?'
Tilie trembled as she held on to her head. Trying to grasp anything that the will showed her. But there was absolutely nothing.
Sirin then started to gain consciousness and she knew that someone messed with her head. Angering her as somebody desecrated her memories with her mother.
"You dare... You dare! You're just an insect! I will destroy you for this transgression!" Sirin willed her subspace lances and they ignited with flames. The temperature around skyrocketed immediately and the flames burned as bright as her rage.
"Evasive maneuvers! That thing is bad news!" Theresa said to the others as she put Judah in front of her. Contemplating if she would use the 0th power of Judah, as it is also supper effective on her. Having the genes of current era Vishnu.
Cheng was about to release the 0th power of Naraka. But a red liquid rained from above and Sirin looked at the rain with trembling eyes. Her rage through the roof.
"Hi granny Theresa, it's so nice to see you. For old times sake, let us deal with this situation. Too bad Cecilia can't come. We'll have some nice combinations, twin power and whatnot." Addy flew above them as her wings of blood flapped.
Sirin squinted her eyes at the newcomer, but she would have problems containing her in the infinite corridor while Theresa has Judah with her.
'Tch, I cannot trap her in the corridor with that little girl with them. And that one with the blue sword will strike me down if I leave myself open.'
Sirin prepared herself and focused on Theresa for now. The two sides stared at each other, tense and ready to pounce.
Sirin couldn't take the pressure and released black miasma that corroded everything it touched. Adelheid immediately swooped down and used abyss flower to neutralize it in an instant as she knew how the 6th's power works even better than Sirin.
Salome and Shub then distracted Sirin with their attacks while Kira tried to tie her down with her strings.
"Enough games humans! I tire of your puny attempts to defeat me!" Sirin floated up high and compressed air. She then filled it with miasma and launched it to the ground.
Cheng froze it and Siegfried fired a concentrated blast of energy on it with Shamash.
The attack exploded and Addy neutralized it with her blood. But Sirin was only waiting for them to get distracted and used her hands of Typhon. Capturing Theresa, she was about to teleport the cosplaying nun. When Siegfried combined his pistols.
The judgement of Shamash burned bright as it entered the Zweihander form. "That won't work herrscher!" He roared and cut the arms. He then redirected the flames, sending it to the frustrated Sirin.
"Useless!" Sirin raised her hand and the flames went docile. It then went paper thin and Addy shouted immediately.
"Duck!" Thankfully, everybody did as Sirin swiped her hand and a thin beam sliced everything in front of her.
She was getting the hang of her other powers and everybody noticed it. "Theresa! Use Elysion Pedion!" Adelheid shouted and the little Apocalypse nodded.
"0th power! Elysion Pedion!" Clockwork started appearing and Sirin felt her honkai energy going haywire.
"That's cheating! You damned insects! Fighting against me that is only one!" Sirin whined, but Adelheid started chanting and Cheng immediately converged her honkai energy to the sword.
"Banish bloom!" Addy wanted to disintegrate Sirin and abyss flower shone white and black. Trembling violently. She then threw it to her with all her strength.
"Feel the cold that freezes the flames of hell, Cocytus." Starting from Cheng, everything froze and molecular movement slowed to a crawl. Freezing the surroundings to absolute zero.
Sirin looked at the attacks that would surely kill her, but she heard a whisper from her god. Telling her that everything would be okay.
Time slowed down and her surroundings blueshifted. Her cores then started to cascade, receiving immense amounts of honkai energy from the imaginary space.
And when it was over, she received 2 more. The 5th and 9th gem. The ground was flattened in an instant as gravity increased and everybody kneeled. Shub and Salome even kissing the ground from the immense gravity.
"Hehe... Kyahahaha! God has blessed me once more you dirty insects!" Sirin laughed as black orbs that sucked in light started orbiting her.
"This isn't good." Adelheid stood up with herculean effort and decided to use her trump card. "Gate of pain release!" She received immense speed and honkai energy exploded from her. Adelheid's skin turned pink and she disappeared from her location. Only a blur to everyone except Sirin.
"What is speed? Against time?" Sirin controlled time using her 2nd core and opened a time fracture. Adelheid clicked her tongue as she saw Sirin keep up with her.
Sirin then coated her hands with a bubble of immense gravity. And upon using the 3rd gem, she moved as fast as lightning. Delivering a devastating sucker punch at Adelheid's face.
Addy's jaw was fractured immediately from the force and she flew for kilometers, the blow created a shockwave and it was like a bomb.
Sirin wasn't finished and opened a portal, making Adelheid crash to the ground in front of her that she increased the gravity of.
"Grovel and squirm, that's what you should've done from the start worm." She stepped on Adelheid's face and the others saw her wrecked face.
Siegfried clenched his hand and reached inside his pocket. He immediately injected the ICHOR on his arm while Sirin reveled in her victory and Parvati's genes started to overpower his human ones. Gaining a blue shell all over his body. He roared and the sword he held started to absorb his honkai energy.
It transformed again and he held it in front of his chest. Cheng then used her blade mantra to distract Sirin as she felt that the sword Siegfried was wielding now would greatly injure Sirin.
The edge of Taixuan struck true and Sirin's void shields deformed from the attack. But with her increased honkai energy and understanding of her powers, it held on.
Sirin was about to teleport, but Adelheid held on to her leg and locked her in with her blood. And before she was able to shake off Addy, Siegfried arrived with a leap. He then struck with An-utu.
The world was bathed in light as the violent energy of the 7th divine key was unleashed. Sirin got burned and she flew like a bullet from the impact.
She skipped like a pebble on the ground before crashing on a hill, concussed by the attack.
Though Cheng was exhausted and Theresa was still weak because of the 0th power of Judah. Immediately taking them out of the fight. And the other members of squad snowwolf were out of their depths.
Shamash turned back to the Zweihander form and lost its brilliant glow. Addy slowly healed up from her injury with abyss flower and staggered on her feet.
'Tch, this will be trouble. She was definitely put in a dream by Fenghuang down. But Fu Hua is nowhere to be seen.' Adelheid didn't see Fu Hua and she forgot that Sirin still has a connection with the gestalt will of honkai.
"Kyahahaha! I will purge this world! And it will be reborn as a paradise!" Sirin exploded with honkai energy and it scattered everywhere. Slowly encroaching the whole of Siberia.
Siegfried injected himself with another dose of ICHOR and he started to cascade. Almost turning into a honkai beast as Shamash absorbed the energy leaking like a broken faucet from Sirin.
Theresa then used the 0th power of Judah once again after Siegfried left the field. She looked at Adelheid and Addy nodded. They were going for the last stretch.
"Gate of wonder! Release!" Her body was getting torn to pieces by opening the 7th gate and her honkai energy erupted. Hers and Sirin's clashed violently as they narrowed their eyes at each other.
"Not in my watch! I'll bring you down right here! Even if it kills me!" Adelheid's pores then started to leak blood. It immediately got vaporized as it exited her body and the Soulium suit worked overtime to replace it.
"Old tricks! That will not work a 2nd time you damned piece of trash!" Sirin noticed the aerosol of blood diffusing into the air and immediately used the 5th and 9th's powers. Freezing the dangerous blood and weighing it down back to the ground.
"Open a path for me Abyss flower! Lilieum Sangiuneum!" The lance was coated by a hard shell of her blood and Theresa's 11th divine key impeded Sirin's cores for a split second.
"You're going down!" Siegfried went behind Sirin and hit Sirin from above. Grounding her as Adelheid focused on her attack as much as possible.
"Ugh, cheating insects! I will not fall here today!" Sirin concentrated on her own core and used the infinite corridor to hide herself in it.
'Damn! She could still use that?' Addy frowned heavily and shouted at Theresa. "Locate her position with Judah! This will be my strongest attack!"
The golden chains pointed somewhere in front of them, giving Adelheid enough time to release her attack in the correct place. Theresa then went unconscious as the anti honkai field of the cross was too much to bear.
Abyss flower flew as it left a red trail of crimson. And when it hit Sirin's infinite corridor, it bore through her dimension with difficulty.
Adelheid then felt weak as she consolidated all her remaining energy at it. But she stared at the clash still. Her anxiousness rising as she felt it was not enough.
Cheng recovered enough and she used her blade mantra. It was small, but it helped immensely with abyss flower's trajectory.
Sirin was supplementing the infinite corridor with her honkai energy. But due to her cores cascading earlier, her control was in jeopardy. And having multiple herrscher cores did not help.
"Valiant effort insects, but my aegis shall hold!" She noticed that abyss flower's resistance was getting weaker. Faster and faster.
She reveled on the thought of seeing them in despair. But the core of reason started acting up and she started losing control of her energy. Joachim left his will inside the core and Sirin's sudden weakness was not missed. As it suddenly fought for dominance.
"Wha! That TRAITOR! He still plagues me even in death!" She got distracted and Cheng's help made the corridor's integrity weaken enough for abyss flower to penetrate.
Sirin was hit right on the chest and she screamed in agony. They saw her appear as the dimension shattered, a lance sticking right through her like a skewer.
Adelheid limped to her and grasped on abyss flower's handle. "We win herrscher, forgive us. You were just a puppet, have a better life if you are reborn." She took the lance out and was about to stab Sirin on the head.
Unfortunately, Ottilie prevented this by shooting at her kneecaps. Making Addy drop on the ground as she looked at the perpetrator with immense anger.
"Do you know what you're doing! You'll doom us all you fucking twat!" Addy tried healing herself, but her reserves were empty and abyss flower did not respond.
Tilie then smirked and kicked her away from Sirin. "Thank you for your efforts, I will now receive my prize." Tilie reached out towards Sirin to collect the cores.
What she didn't know, was abyss flower prevented Sirin from healing. And because of her meddling. She was able to recover enough to retaliate.
A subspace lance erupted from the ground and hit the blonde at the torso. Sirin then flew upwards as she panted, sweating from the close call.
"I admit. You humans were about to defeat me, but your foul comrade gave me enough time to reclaim victory. Thank you for that, trash. Because you want to see them die so much, I will reward you a quick death after I deal with them. Kyahahahaha!" Sirin laughed and thought it was over, her plans would be realized and nobody can stop her now.
Siegfried grasped the last dose of ICHOR, he then apologized to Kiana and Cecilia in his mind as he would need to use it and turn into a mindless beast in order to defeat the enemy.
Sirin then crushed the will inside the core of reason and resumed bathing the lands with honkai energy. Portals then opened and honkai beasts exited from it in droves. Quickly creating a legion.
"This world shall fall! And with its ashes, my kingdom will rise! Kyahaha-" Sirin's maniacal laugh got cut off as she felt someone grasp at her torso.
Sirin felt floaty for a split second as she was thrown into the air. "Ahhh! Liger bomb!" And then, it was pain. As she was slammed down to the ground with immense force, liquefying her organs and breaking all the bones on her torso.
Lightning rained down on her location as plasma glassed the earth. The impact shaked Siberia and earthquakes ravaged the lands as the ground split wide open.
Everyone was thrown into the air by Fuxi before she did her move. As the peanut gallery's jaw almost unhinged from the shock, literally.
"Hello there, I am reinforcement." Fuxi waved at them as she crackled with lightning and they slowly went back to the ground.
"Wh-what!? I thought Ein-sama was joking when he said you would take care of the herrscher when things get out of control..." Cheng couldn't believe it as Fuxi was too smol for that amount of power.
"W-who are you?" Siegfried gulped nervously as he asked. Not knowing if she had other purposes.
"Well, allow me to introduce myself. I am Fuxi, just Fuxi. Cheng there already knows me, please do refrain from asking anymore questions." Fuxi raised her hand as Siegfried was about to yap again.
"It seems you guys are quite injured no? Have one of these." She threw them some ordinary looking vials and there was a haphazard label on it written as mega potion.
And when Fuxi was distracted, Sirin teleported away. Panting heavily while the 6th core regenerated her absolutely destroyed torso.
"You! You're just like that red eyed one..." She started getting nervous and was not sure what Fuxi can do.
"Why yes, you've met my sister Nuwa. A pleasure to meet you. Would you surrender, or would I have to beat you up?" Fuxi asked nicely and Sirin's fear and nervousness went away instantly. Her arrogance and pride hurt from her words.
"Damn you! I'll show you! Now that you don't have a surprise attack and that mech, I'll tear you apart!" Sirin reactivated her void shields to the max so she won't receive any more dirty surprise attacks and subspace lances surrounded Nuwa.
The situation looked dire and everybody looked at Nuwa anxiously. "Hmmm, such a shame. It seems you are still too young to see the differences in skill and power." Nuwa cracked her neck and fingers, she then loosened up her joints.
It pissed of Sirin even more, seeing her so relaxed and confident. "Do not patronize me human! I am the servant of god!" She weighed Fuxi down with immense gravity and spiderweb cracks appeared beneath her, but she did not react.
"I guess using my weapon isn't needed. Ninpou, lightning armor." Fuxi erupted with reddish black lightning. Copying Ein's, not only able to atomize anything it touches. It could also attack the mind, the more intelligent the enemy, the higher the damage. It has a special property of sealing honkai as well.
A terrible lightning storm appeared all over Siberia. The violent lightning ripping apart everything it touched into rudimentary particles. While deafening thunder claps resounded.
Sirin then willed her subspace lances to skewer Fuxi. Intent on turning her into a porcupine, the little scientist did not move one inch. And when the lances hit her armor, it disintegrated without a single trace.
"Tch! Lightning obeys me trash! I am the queen of conquest!" Sirin tried to redirect the lightning storm. Raising her hand, concentrating so she would wield Fuxi's lightning. Thinking that she will be able to use it.
It focused on her, and her hand turned into a lightning rod as it hit. Though the result was unexpected, Sirin's hand disappeared and it did not return. Even with the gem of serenity's healing.
"Ahhh! My hand! My precious hand!" She screamed as she looked at her atomized limb and the peanut gallery sucked in a breath upon seeing the terrible results the lightning would do to you.
"Hah, I guess I'll have to bring you in. Prepare yourself! My master did not teach me to hold back!" Her muscles twitched and with immense speed, she arrived in front of Sirin with her arm outstretched.
"Lariat!" Sirin's void shields deformed and Fuxi's small arm hit her on the neck. Making her fly, crashing into the earth with a resounding explosion accompanied by a thunderclap.
The peanut gallery had to cover their ears and their hair stood up from the massive electrical charges.
And before the dust even settled. Fuxi appeared right above Sirin with her leg fashioned for an axe kick. "Guillotine drop!" She increased her momentum with electromagnetism and her foot crashed onto the ground. An earthquake shaked Siberia again as the Siberian traps started erupting, spewing millions of tons of ash and pyroclastic flow.
Volcanic lightning accompanied the eruption as the peanut gallery gulped at the titanic battle.
Sirin was able to barely dodge. Appearing a little distance away as she sweated heavily. Looking at the massive crater below Fuxi's feet.
Fuxi eyed her like a predator and she got chills. Seeing Fuxi's sleepy eyes as she was getting hunted like some prey.
"No... No! Don't come close!" She was about to piss herself, as Fuxi started jogging leisurely on her position. She then sprinted and accelerated even more, vaporizing the surroundings as she broke the sound barrier multiple times.
"Lightning straight." Fuxi's fist pierced her shield in an instant and Sirin could only close her eyes as she thought her fist would blow away her head off clean. But Fuxi grasped her neck tightly and she was choked slammed back to the ground.
"Yield. Or die." Fuxi started to put pressure on her neck and Sirin's vertebrae creaked. As she asphyxiated, the herrscher nodded immediately and Fuxi released her. Her fingers printed on her neck as Sirin started coughing and gasped for air.
"Ummm, Ms. Fuxi. Aren't you going to you know? Seal her powers? Put her in handcuffs? Anything?" Siegfried addressed her politely and thought of how to detain Sirin.
"Wait one moment." Fuxi wore medical gloves and put her hand inside Sirin's chest. She then fished for the herrscher cores one by one and put it in a ziplock bag. Making the others raise a brow.
And before Fuxi could get the core of the void. The gestalt will of honkai took it away as it deemed Sirin a lost cause. It then disappeared, but Fuxi could care less and thought her job was done as Sirin returned to her rags, without an arm and her other hand as the core of reason got taken away. Looking like a pitiful little harmless girl.
"Umm, I think that's going to be a problem." Cheng pointed at the Siberian traps that was spewing massive amounts of ash and volcanic rock. She knew it might be the reason for an extinction event and it might be a huge problem.
"Hah, I'll take care of it. See this stupid Nuwa? You have to clean up after yourself." A bubble then appeared and the observers were confused.
But it enlarged immediately. "Flagello di Colori del Arcobaleno, Speranza di Briscola" It engulfed the Siberian traps and the volcanic eruption. A storm then gathered everything in place and the temperature dropped inside the bubble. The lava turned into igneous rock as it plugged up the earth and the millions of tons of ash returned to the ground as harmless dust.
"Wh-what did you just do?" Salome asked as she was the intellectual type. And it looked like Fuxi controlled the weather inside the bubble to her will.
"Ahh, that's my weapon. Pretty neat right? It's Zenith Tempest. I can will any weather at any condition, even in the vacuum of space. I can even destroy the world, covering it in a cataclysmic storm that would rain down hail, fire, and lightning. Want to see it?"
They immediately shook their heads and Adelheid's eyes shone. Immediately recognizing the name as she thought she must get her hands on anime powers as much as possible.
Fuxi then made Sirin drink a vial with a haphazard label of Elixir. She then grew her arms back in an instant and Sirin thought that if she had that medicine back then, her mother wouldn't have died. As she cried immediately upon remembering what she has done.
"Save it for later, at least you will still have a friend left. Though she is now Ein's pet and he has probably domesticated her by now." Fuxi smiled at her and held her hand.
"Truly?" Sirin wiped her tears and thought that she didn't deserve salvation or friends.
"Yeah, it's Schicksal and the honkai's fault anyway. So let us go, a kid like you should play and eat plenty." Fuxi then lead her back to the tent, along with the others.
"Wait a minute, where's that bitch Ottilie! I oughta!" Adelheid looked everywhere for the blonde, but she was long gone. She escaped when Sirin skewered her and she failed to get the core of reason and serenity.
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They arrived at the tent and Fuxi gave the ziplock bag of herrscher cores to Ein. "Mission accomplished. So I have unlimited access to our credit card now? Do I?" Fuxi got excited and thought she would get all the characters she wanted for sure. As Ein did not give them company accounts that unlocked every character in the gacha.
He patted her head and smiled. "Sure thing, good job Fuxi. Unlike Nuwa here who destroyed multiple planets." He gave a look at Nuwa who lowered her head in shame. But she had a smirk on her face as she successfully deleted Fuxi's accounts while she was gone.
"Hah... So? What do you have to say for yourself girl?" Ein looked at Sirin and she flinched. Not knowing what to say.
"I guess you won't be able to reply. Come here, have some food." He gave her tons of variety and she looked at him for permission.
"Go on, kids your age should just eat and play." He smiled at her and patted her head.
She immediately started as she haven't seen that much food on the table at her short life. She then gained stars on her eyes as she ate with gusto.
"You know, I won't fault you because you're just a kid. And you went through a lot, but now. I want you to remember okay? Those who haven't wronged you do not deserve retribution. Revenge isn't wrong, kill anything that gets in your way for it. Those righteous fucks that tell you it's wrong, could die for all you care. But innocent bystanders are off limits all right?" He imparted his wisdom and the newcomers frowned heavily, especially Siegfried.
"I won't talk if I were you. Might controls everything boy. You live in a relatively peaceful time. Back then, soldiers like you were dime a dozen. And they were reaped like wheat in our battlefield. You could only pass as a petty officer that could handle one emperor class honkai beast. This war is just a normal tuesday for us." Kalpas said to Siegfried, making him shut up.
"Hah, he wouldn't understand Kalpas~ Hiii~ I'm Elysia. You guys did well okay? It is different now after all. But Kalpas is right too, you guys would've been wiped out by the 2nd herrscher, Sirin here does not have any idea how to use her powers after all." Elysia gave them some context on how much of a threat herrschers could really be.
Ein then teleported them to Cecilia and Kiana's room. Kiana saw the people and she rushed to Siegfried and Theresa.
"Dada! Granny Theresa!" She hugged them and Siegfried thought that it's a miracle he survived this war. So he hugged his daughter tightly.
"Kiana dear, dad and grandma Theresa aren't back yet..." Cecilia saw Siegfried and their entourage and she smiled when she saw Adelheid with them.
"Ein-nii, It's so good to see you again. Addy." She hugged them one by one and Ein patted her head. He then gave her two bags that tickled her nostalgia as she gave one to Kiana.
"Long time no see Cecilia. You've grown splendidly. And how about you, little cutie. Did you like your stay here? We made sure to give you plenty of games." Ein patted Kiana and she cheered.
"Un! I had lots of fun!" She then smelled the bag of treats and immediately started going ham on it.
Cecilia smiled fondly and remembered her time back then when she would wait for Adelheid to get their bags of treats from him. "It's good isn't it Kiana? Say thanks to Ein-nii okay?"
Kiana had stars in her eyes as she ate, she then thought that Ein was the best and she would love to have his food everyday.
"Ein-nii! Cook for me everyday okay! Dada's cooking tastes bad." She commented as Siegfried immediately lost and received damage from her daughter's thoughtless comment.
"Haha, sure thing. But how about we have a party with your dad's colleagues?" Ein then teleported them all to Yellowstone and they were met with the immortal teen scientist brigade.
They weren't surprised and Ein immediately prepared a feast, he then went up to Joachim and gave him back his core. "Good job Joachim, splendid work. You had multiple plans and even if you were to die, you had another back up. It's just a mismatch is all, by the way. When will you and Tesla get married hmmm?" He wiggled his brows and Joachim did a spit take.
Ein then laughed as Tesla blushed like a tomato. She then went up to him and asked for more of the performance enhancing pills, for research purposes of course.
"Alright! Let us celebrate. Humanity still reigns and it will heal eventually. There might be hiccups along the way. But you guys still won, enjoy this day and live for another day with your loved ones and family." Ein raised his glass for a toast as everybody cheered.
He then got Bella in tow so she could meet with Sirin. As she was just standing in a corner, thinking that she almost broke the families and friends apart from each other that was celebrating right now.
"Hey, hey. I got just the friend of yours that could cheer you up." The two stared at each other and Sirin teared up when she saw her.
"Bella..." Sirin knew she wasn't the real Bella. But she was loyal to her and didn't betray her like the other humans did.
"My queen. No, Sirin. I'm glad you're alright." Bella went up to her and hugged her.
"Ahh, my pet is happy. Everyone's happy, there is nothing wrong except a few destroyed cities." He then ushered them back to the party and nobody singled them out. Making Sirin emotional once more.
"Reanna, I want you to take care of them for now. They must be lacking common sense and the likes. You've mellowed out through the years, I think they would love to be with you." He smiled and Reanna sighed.
"Well, being a gardener made me quite soft. And that's thanks to you too. I think living a life at peace instead of fighting is just right up my alley." The blonde smiled at the sight of Sirin and Bella enjoying the party and agreed to teach them.
"It's been a few decades. I think I would like to take care of them, maybe be like a family. You refuse to give us kids after all you bad man." She pinched him and Ein sighed, he reminisced the past and thought everything must be in place before he could have kids.
"A couple of few more years. This would be like practice no? Loose ends must be tied up so I will have a peace of mind." He stared at empty space and he was broken out of his thoughts by Sirin tugging at his sleeve.
"Umm, I have a request... Can I call you... Dad?" Ein was surprised for the first time again after decades. The last time was when he discovered Lieserl and the other famous scientists were girls.
"Ahh, it's because you're kind and I would like to think of you as one. Is it bad?" She did the puppy dog eyes and Reanna snickered at him.
"No, no. It's fine. Well, if that's what you want. Then it's okay." He smiled and patted her head. Thinking if this is what would've been if he managed to save HIMEKO and his unborn child.
"Un! Thanks dad!" She hugged his waist and he patted her head.
"You'll be a horrible dad. You'll spoil our kids rotten." Reanna teased him and he pouted at her. "Well, they deserve the world. And I basically own it anyways so it's fine. I'll beat them up though if they turn out to be a young master type. So no worries." He waved his hand nonchalantly and they laughed.
They then enjoyed the party and he also received a step daughter.
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Thanks for reading, he will meet someone unexpected at the California institute of Technology later. And how will tuna emerge? She will appear. Anyways, ciao.